The Église de Verbier hosts morning, afternoon and evening concerts. It is the Verbier Festival’s primary venue for solo, chamber music and vocal recitals.
Rencontres Inédites (Unique Encounters) III
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You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).
E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.
You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).
Luminary and younger-generation Verbier artists join together for three contrasting Romantic works from three different centuries.
Composed in 2010, Igor Raykhelson’s neo-Romantic String Quartet in F minor opens on a Tchaikovsky-ish elegiac idea which then becomes the melodic basis of the ensuing waltz music. After a darkly contemplative Adagio meditabondo, the finale re-introduces the elegiac idea. Chausson’s 1898 Piano Quartet in A major is equally full of richly textured dialogue, coloured by antique modal harmonies. Outer Animé movements – the finale re-introducing previous themes – encase a long-lined slow movement and a delicately lilting Simple et sans hâte. Schumann’s texturally and thematically packed First Piano Trio of 1847 opens on restless music whose rising fourth will form the basis of a new theme at movement’s centre, introduced in glassy sul ponticello tones. Similarly, the second movement’s smooth central section is a transformation of its scampering, scherzo-like outer ends. The third is a sober Langsam, tipping straight into the more cloudless finale.